Category: Classic Chrome Recipes

Beach

August 19, 2025

123 Chrome – Classic Kodachrome Look

A versatile film simulation recipe for landscape, travel and general photography

123 Chrome

Back again with a massive banger of a film recipe that delivers beautiful looks in fine weather for a huge range of subjects. This Classic Chrome simulation recipe presents a classic Kodak mood with definite Kodachrome vibes that come through in the colours and slightly nostalgic edge to photos taken with it. It’s fully compatible with all new and recent cameras too, so whether you have an X100VI, X-E5, X-M5, X-T50 or older camera back to the X100V, then this recipe will work really well for you.

I did my field testing on a trip to the coast, and you can see how the blues of the sky and sea have rendered. I gave the Color Chrome Blue a push to achieve this, and I love how it adds impact without looking false. This is set to weak on new cameras, and strong on older models, but you can try strong on new cameras too if you really love a deep blue.

Your other option with this recipe is to introduce grain at Weak, Small. I’ve kept things super smooth in the published settings, but for a more film like result, you can add this on if you prefer. Otherwise, enjoy the Kodachrome vibes of this sunny day workhorse, and if you like your results, do let me know.

123 Chrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Underwater, +1 Red, ‑2 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑2
Colour	3
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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Photos taken with the 123 Chrome film recipe by members of the Film Recipes community.

Photos by David Forsdike

123 Chrome film recipe photo by David Forsdike

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123 Chrome film recipe photo by Sebastien Lou

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Kodak

Film Like

Bold Colour

Aged Look

Blue Tones

Warm Tones

Green Tones

Red Tones

Teal & Cyan Tones

July 22, 2025

Brownout, Golden Brown in Golden Hour

A strongly toned brown look film recipe to give a deep and rich warmth with a nostalgic vibe

Brownout

When I take photographs, I enjoy thinking about the mood and feel of the light and look to use film recipes to magnify this. So, if the light is soft, I use a soft look film recipe. If there is a dominant tone to a scene, I will often use a recipe that works with that, whether it’s green tones, blue tones or the cream tones of golden hour.

In this film recipe, I wanted to work with two elements; the winter tones of the trees and leaves at this time of year, and the golden light that you can enjoy in the extended winter golden hour that those of us living at northern latitudes experience in Winter. This recipe goes all out for brown, orange and golden tones, and works well in these conditions.

My preference to maximise the impact is to shoot towards the sunlight, giving strong dark shadows and golden lens flare effects. Finding leaves backlit by the sun, or interesting shapes to silhouette can be great fun with this recipe.

Brownout Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto, +6 Red, ‑9 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	2
Shadows	2
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑2
EV Comp.	-1/3

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Brown Tones

Deep Tones

Muted Tones

Aged Look

Winter

Beach

Misty & Foggy

January 3, 2025

Eastman Color, Early Kodak 35mm Film

Kodak Color Film inspired film simulation recipe, based on Classic Chrome

Eastman Color

The color prints that you see from early Kodak color film have a distinctive nostalgic quality that places them in their era. I love the aesthetic of these early photos, and hope that one day we will get a new film simulation that takes us back to these inspiring adventerous times.

In prints from this time, you often see strong blues in particular, with vivid blue eyes, bold skies and a general striking richness. Things didn’t look perfectly natural, but instead had a unique vibe that was possibly futuristic at the time, but nowadays is much more retro and charming.

In this film simulation recipe, I have tried to bring as much of this look as I can to a Classic Chrome set-up. It’s by no means a complete match, but I have very much enjoyed creating it, and testing it out on a variety of subjects. True to the plan, blues are vivid and striking, and the nostalgic feel is there, with an aged rendering of other colours. This means that it is better suited to more colourful scenes and might be fun when the subject is also from the 50s, 60s or 70s.

Eastman Color Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Fluorescent 3, ‑5 Red, ‑7 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR100
Highlights	1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	0
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑3
EV Comp.	0

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Kodak

Film Like

Nostalgic & Vintage

Aged Look

Blue Tones

Red Tones

Beach

Winter

Cloudy Rainy & Bad Weather

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Urban & Street

Frost Ice & Snow

September 30, 2024

Alpenchrome, Classic Chrome for Hikes

Classic Chrome film recipe for X-Trans IV and V cameras, with a Kodak look for outdoor photography

Alpenchrome

Whilst I like the beach and ocean as much as the next person, I live close to one, and so for vacations I often go to the mountains. In September, I took a trip to the Tirol, a mountainous region of Austria. I prepared a number of film recipes to take on my travels, trying to predict which settings would compliment the green meadows and blue skies of the high mountains.

I was sure that at least one of my recipes should be based on Classic Chrome, and this is the one that I came up with. I feel that it uses the teal tones of Classic Chrome in a subtle way, and balances this with the green of the lush meadows and forests.

I’ve given it a whirl on some RAW files from an earlier visit to the Barcelona tennis tournament, and some of the local lanes and fields near where I live. All-in-all, I’m pleased with the recipe, giving a consistent and controlled look that is distinctly Fujifilm, but with an analog softness to the tone that also feels reminiscent of Kodak 35mm. Although designed for the mountains, it’s a go everywhere film recipe for sunny conditions.

Alpenchrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	6000K, ‑3 Red, +3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑1
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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September 25, 2024

Best Before, Extremely Expired Film

Experimental film silmulation recipe for damaged, over exposed, expired film

Best Before

When you review some old prints, perhaps from around the 1950s or 1960s, they are a pale imitation of their former selves. In this extreme look film recipe, the washed out, discoloured look of heavily aged print is reproduced.

Although it is something of a novelty, some images do look quite interesting with it, such as simple winter images. But for the most part, this recipe is destructive, capturing instead a feeling of distant memories of handed down prints.

This recipe is based on Classic Chrome, which is pushed hard into a burned out state with an exposure compensation of +1 (or 3 stops) and a +3 highlights setting. The intention is to destroy the brighter parts of the image, so do be sure to push this firmly into brighter territory.

Best Before Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Strong, Large
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Fluorescent 3, +2 Red, +3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR100
Highlights	3
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑3
Sharpness	‑4
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	3
EV Comp.	+1

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May 9, 2024

Bananarama, Yellow Wes Anderson Look

Capture banana yellow tones with this extreme colour balance film recipe

Bananarama

I like to be surprised by the versatility of our Fujifilm cameras, and the range of styles that can be producted with film simulation recipes. We have a good selection of film simulations to explore, and with the addition or adjustments to tone, saturation and colour balance, the possibilities are almost endless. However, there are some looks that seem to come around quite often, especially when trying to keep close to a film like aesthetic, or to model a recipe on a real 35mm film stock.

For something different, we have to look to more extreme settings, or to be bold and try something unexpected. I got a taste of this on April 1st, when Ritchie from Fuji X Weekly gave us his Apocalyptic Glow film recipe. Whilst this recipe was intented to be a fun joke, the pop art style with vivid orange tones got me thinking. I wondered what other extreme settings might give a fun look that I would want to go out and shoot with?

I staked close to the 10,000K color balance, but went for yellow rather than orange in the color shift. I also wanted less saturation, so I chose Classic Chrome rather than Ritchie’s Velvia. The resulting recipe is still a more extreme look film recipe, but I think it has a place, especially around sunset or in pursuit of the Wes Anderson inspired Asteroid City vibes.

Bananarama Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	9900K, +1 Red, ‑9 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑2
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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Warm Tones

Beach

April 11, 2024

Safari Chrome, for African Explorations

A Classic Chrome film recipe designed for outdoor shooting and natural colour

Safari Chrome

From time to time, I get asked whether I might be able to make a film simulation recipe for certain situations, or to macth the work of a photographer or social gallery. I do enjoy these challenges, although it’s not always possible to acheive the look in question with jsut a film recipe.

A similar challenge came my way when I was discussing an upcoming safari trip with our of our Facebook club members. David Forsdike was due to travel to South Africa, and wanted some ideas for a recipe to use for wildlife phtoography. He has X-Trans V cameras and had bagged a new zoom lens for the trip.

My thoughts on this were two fold. Firstly, I was new to X-Trans V, having only recently upgraded to an X-S20, which uses a hybrid of the series IV sensor and series V processing and simulations. I didn’t yet have many RAW files to experiment on, or full confidence in how X-Trans V recipes might look. Secondly, I’ve not visited South Africa, so it was hard to be sure what conditions David might find there. I’ve seen episodes of Wild Earth on YouTube, which was a clue that we’d be dealing with dawn or dusk, but also possibly some hard sunlight too.

So, I decided a new recipe would be best, developed on my X-S20 and in X RAW Studio. I wanted something that didn’t make strong changes to the images, because the star should be the wild animals, rather than the tone or mood form the recipe. This was also important so that they remained true colour, so we avoid any orange leopards or pink elephants that might otherwise look odd.

I picked Classic Chrome as the base simulation and I chose to add a little film like tone with a -3 shift for Blue. Classic Chrome is naturally desaturated, so I boost colour by 2 steps to bring back some of the vibrancy. For the lower light flexibility and protection in harsh conditions, I paired DR400 with -1 highlights and shadows. This should give a bit more shadow detail and soften the harsh light.

Below is my Safari Chrome recipe, which David took to South Africa. As you’ll see, he was lucky and saw a wide variety of impressive wildlife, and also captured some compelling scenes in a local market. My guess of hard sunlight, didn’t come to pass on the game drives, but the natural colour and soft shoadows approach for the recipe, produced a natural result and I think his images look great!

Safari Chrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto, 0 Red, ‑3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	2
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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Green Tones

March 24, 2024

Expired 400, Photos from Old Film Rolls

Classic Chrome film recipe for a green toned expired film look

Expired 400 Film

Shooting on film has become something of a specialist hobby now, with film prices higher than ever and processing labs few and far between. However, the cool kids on the Gram, Vero and Threads are still showing how it’s done, and processing their own film at home. For an added retro twist, some are using old rolls of expired film, bringing new tones to the table.

Some of the elements seen in expired film can be captured with our Fujifilm cameras, and I now have a small selection to choose from. My Aged Kodak Portra is a personal favourite, along with Expired Geographic and of course, the pink toned Expired Film 66.

For this new variation, I wanted a look that brought the expired green tint along with a flattened tone curve as a nod to the fade effect seen in many expired film images. The result is both striking but welcoming, and is certainly full of expired character. It’s not perhaps an everyday choice, but I really enjoy shooting with it in sunny conditions, and I’m sure you will do too.

Expired 400 Film Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto, +2 Red, ‑9 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑2
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑4
EV Comp.	+1/3

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December 10, 2023

Minus One, Classic Chrome for Cold Days

Classic Chrome film recipes designed for winter days with a subtle cool tone shift

Minus One

When the weather is colder, you may wish to show the mood of a scene without the warm colour shift that many film recipes offer. For these wintry days and cold crisp mornings, a cooler colour balance makes for a film recipe kind to blue tones that doesn’t remove the frosty feel.

At the heart of this film recipe is a somewhat uncommon colour balance, using the Underwater preset as a starting point. This setting was added to our cameras for the rather unlikely chance that we would go swimming with them. For many of us, it is therefore left unused.

For frosty, misty and cold clear days, this balance is actually quite useful, and with just a gentle adjustment, and a dash of Colour Chrome Blue we have a great look for winter. For my personal takses, I have softened the contrast slightly, and nudged sturation down one step too.

The result is a versatile film recipe, ideal for winter days, but happy in a wide range of conditions, especially where a warm colour balance is a distraction.

Minus One Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Underwater, ‑1 Red, ‑1 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑1
Sharpness	‑1
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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